"How much is this?"

"Well... please wait a moment, sir. Let me take a look... For this, just give me 80 pitas..."

Listening to Brandon's words, the clerk took out the watch, and after examining the finely crafted watch, he gave his own price quote. The peta is the currency in Castile, and the exchange rate for peschiera is about 140 petas to 1 peschiera.

“Okay, I bought it…”

As she spoke, Dorothy asked Brandon to take over and give the bitcoin that she had exchanged at the bank yesterday to the clerk. The clerk took it and handed the watch to Brandon. Brandon glanced at some small gift boxes on the cabinet behind the clerk, then silently put away the watch that was not adjusted, and then put on a more serious expression and said to the clerk.

"By the way, I also want to buy a watch. I wonder if you have a stone heart watch here..."

As soon as Brandon finished speaking, the two shop assistants were startled for a moment, and then their expressions immediately became serious. One of the shop assistants spoke without hesitation.

"Ah, we have this thing, but it's not on display outside because it's quite precious. Please come in with us to take a look." As he said that, the clerk left the counter, opened a small door at the side of the room and went in. Seeing this, Brandon did not hesitate and followed in.

Following the clerk in front of him, Brandon walked through a narrow corridor and came to a dim and narrow stone room at the end of the corridor. The stone room was illuminated by several gas lamps and was surrounded by thick and airtight stone walls. There was only a small window in the stone wall in front. Most of the window was sealed with thick steel bars, and there was only a small opening at the bottom for taking things in and out. This was a bit like the bank teller window in Dorothy's previous life, but the protective measures were even more crazy. These thick steel bars and stone walls were extremely difficult to shake even with extraordinary abilities.

"Here is what you need. Please leave as soon as possible after the transaction is completed."

The clerk who led the way said this, then turned around and left the scene. Brandon glanced at the surrounding environment and said to the solemn Yi Mou.

"Do you have any secret books on the theme of 'Stone'? How many are there?"

Brandon finished speaking, then stood there waiting silently. After a while, a deep sound came from Yi's mouth.

"The secret book of 'Shi'... We have it here, three in total."

"So what's the price of these three pieces?"

"Three Secret Books, one book is 70,000 petas, one book is 84,000 petas, and one book is 77,000 petas. Do you need to know the name of the book?" The voice continued after the exchange of words. Dorothy calculated for a while after listening to it and found that it was roughly equivalent to 1,650 pounds. She had exchanged nearly 2,000 pounds for petas at the time, which was considered affordable.

"I won't tell you the title of the book, okay..."

Dorothy let Brandon say this, then took out an anonymous check and some cash and handed them to the exchange. After a short wait, the exchange handed over three packages wrapped in oil paper.

"Thank you for your patronage."

After taking the oil paper package, Brandon walked out of the stone room and returned to the watch shop. Then, under the gaze of the two shop assistants, he walked out of the shop and walked into the cobblestone alley.

Holding the secret book he had just bought, Brandon walked out of the alley onto the street. Unlike Brandon who was walking quickly on the street, Dorothy, who was still in the restaurant, was lost in thought. Her thoughts went back to the time before she entered Jose's Watch Shop. Detailed pictures emerged in her mind, starting with the scene in front of the store.

'There is a fine dust on the central clock in the window. It must have not been cleaned for some time.'

Next is the scene inside the store, and Dorothy's attention is focused on the floor and the wall clocks.

'The floor is a little dirty, it must be not cleaned often. The wall clock that runs on time has a slight delay. In this era, mechanical clocks need to be adjusted frequently to be on time. This is the first time it has not been adjusted for a long time. For a watch shop... this is a bit casual...'

Dorothy then continued to recall, this time focusing on the time when she bought the pocket watch alone.

'I bought a watch in a watch shop. The clerk gave it to me right away. He didn't help me adjust it to the correct time, and he didn't even find a gift box to put it in. A watch of this price is not a cheap one...

"There are so many problems in this watch shop. If the strict manager named Felipe knew about it, he would definitely be scolded severely... How long did he wait for these employees to relax? "

While thinking this, Dorothy controlled Brandon to continue walking forward. After walking for a long time, Brandon saw another watch shop on the roadside. Then he walked in without saying a word and spoke to the owner inside.

"Boss, can you help me estimate the price of this pocket watch?"

"Hello, sir..."

After taking the watch handed over by Brandon, the owner of the watch shop put on his glasses and began to look at it carefully. After looking at it for a while, he gave his own price.

"Sir, this watch is well made in every aspect. It is an exquisite work of art. It must have been made by an excellent watchmaker. It will definitely be priced higher than ordinary watches. If you want to sell it, I am willing to pay 200 peeta."

Chihiro: Free novel, novel, skirt..?25.."5.5;"9!::5!3!.0,"0 "Oh...Is that so? Thank you very much, but I don't have any intention of selling it yet. This is the appraisal fee, thank you for your help..."

As he said this, Brandon took back the pocket watch he had just bought. Then, under Dorothy's manipulation, he began to wander around the city of Troyes, and found several watch shops and pawn shops to appraise the watch he bought. The results showed that the watch was worth between 150 bis and 300 bis. Although the range was not large, it was higher than the 80 bis that Dorothy paid when she bought it.

After seeing this, Dorothy was sure of one thing: the clerk who gave him the watch did not understand the value of the watch and did not know how to set the price.

"Heh... I didn't expect that White Stonemason would run a storefront so carelessly. He could even do such a loss-making business. It doesn't fit the style of those guys... Tivian's Golden Contract Bank handles its own mundane banking business very well."

Dorothy was thinking this in the restaurant. At this time, she already had some other ideas about this watch shop.

Then, Dorothy took Brandon to a secluded place on the river bank and found a deserted place to open the oil paper packaging. After opening it, she saw two tattered booklets and a scattered manuscript. Dorothy did not pay attention to the contents of these documents for the time being, but opened her spiritual vision to quickly flip through and scan the documents she bought. Then, she found a trace of spirituality on the back cover of one of the old booklets.

This is a spiritual trace of the "lamp". Dorothy identified it briefly and confirmed that it was a sign that was pasted there.